“I think when you find yourself at an extreme end of the Republican Party, you make yourself unelectable,” Huntsman said today on ABC’s “This Week.”

Huntsman also ridiculed Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., for claiming that that she could bring gasoline prices below $2 if elected president.

“I just don’t know what world that comment would come from. … That is completely unrealistic. And, again, it’s talking about things that, you know, may pander to a particular group or sound good at the time, but it just simply is not founded in reality.”

Huntsman said his Republican rivals as well as President Barack Obama are on the political “fringes.” Huntsman says Obama is too liberal and there are Republican candidates who are too far to the right and have “zero substance.”